Here we are, finally back to the full-time activity after a short vacation break. A lot of surprises are coming soon on our pages, such as rich interviews, several video-reports and RECORDINGS, together with exclusive previews. This article belongs to the last mentioned category: we’re deeply honoured to present the debut on record by the young producer Bellatrix?, from Verona, Italy, along with full streaming of the release. ANIME SOLITARIE Cassette 001 is also the launch work for the eponymous Bellatrix?’s own label, ANIME SOLITARIE [Italian for ‘Lonely Souls’].

The artist will perform at 2016 Path Festival in Verona, Italy, taking place this very weekend [Saturday 3rd September]. Bellatrix? will be opening the Interzona stage for great artists such as Legowelt [Strange Life Records, Crème Organization, L.I.E.S.] and the friend Violet Poison, running the cult-label Veleno Viola that is about to release a Bellatrix? 12” EP in the next months. Right below you can stream ANIME SOLITARIE CASSETTE 001 straight out of our soundcloud channel, to immediately get tuned in with the two piece of romantic, acid / EBM pieces featured on the tape. Enjoy!

TRACKLIST

01 – Mescolarsi 4:20

02 – Anime Solitarie 6:14

ANIME SOLITARIE is the outcome Bellatrix? is going to exploit as the main platform for releasing friends and close artists’ works, together with his very own tracks. The products will be available in very limited editions, and they’ll be enriched by Bellatrix?’s artworks. They play a key role in defining the overall vibe for listening: in this particular occasion, they summon something very close to the melancholy experience of finding forgotten – and slightly dusty – photographies on the shelf.

The first of the two tracks, called Mescolarsi, absorbs the first 4 minutes and a half. A heavy beat marks the dilated phrases revolving aroud distorted and cracked – almost guitar-like – synths. Echoing vocals and a 808 Machine are the last features that makes Mescolarsi an armored panzer proceeding on the fields and destroying eveything on its path. The 80s – wave aesthetic is recalled by Bellatrix? together with its romantic and sensual connotation: this causes him to be a perfect match for releasing stuff on the Veleno Viola label, whose founder Violet Poison has always been committed to sensuality and poisounous love. Acid, alarming arpeggios open up the second track’s first moments, to be replaced by an enigmatic and oneiric divagation which would perfectly fit within a horror movie soundtrack. The ending of Anime Solitarie is occupied by the scornful acceleration of the beat, until the final fade-out. Bellatrix? will be soon our guest, so please stay tuned! In the meantime, we recommend you to play in a close-loop the tracks, again and again.

We’d like to close this feature recalling one more time the imminent appointment with Path Festival in Verona, Italy. Here you can read the program day by day, the line-up, and also the presentations of the new spaces that are going to be opened in the city to be the scenarios for youth-culture oriented events. [To have a rough idea of what you could expect by attending the Festival, please consider watching our video-reports for Path Festival’s II and III preview acts]. See you there!

A. and C. have been living in Turin, Italy since late 2015. The former is pursuing his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering and considers Guy Picciotto being the repository of happiness in life, the latter is currently studying sculpture at Accademia di Belle Arti where she messes around with materials and fantasizes about turning into a bunny.

Andrea Migliorati e Cristina Ruggieri

A. and C. have been living in Turin, Italy since late 2015. The former is pursuing his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering and considers Guy Picciotto being the repository of happiness in life, the latter is currently studying sculpture at Accademia di Belle Arti where she messes around with materials and fantasizes about turning into a bunny.

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